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PRONUNCIATION OF IN ONE'S OWN BACK YARD

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Definition of in one's own back yard in the English dictionary

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WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE IN ONE'S OWN BACK YARD

in office
in old money
in on
in one
in one ear and out the other
in one´s blood
in one´s cups
in one´s face
in one´s heart
in one´s mind´s eye
in one´s own right
in one´s own time
in one´s pocket
in one´s power
in one´s right mind
in one´s shirtsleeves
in one´s stocking feet
in one´s tracks
in opposition
in order

WORDS THAT END LIKE IN ONE'S OWN BACK YARD

back yard
backyard
coal yard
courtyard
exercise yard
freight yard
goods yard
graveyard
knacker´s yard
main yard
marshalling yard
navy yard
prison yard
railway yard
refit yard
shunting yard
switch yard
timber yard
vineyard
yard

Synonyms and antonyms of in one's own back yard in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «in one's own back yard» into 25 languages

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The translations of in one's own back yard from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «in one's own back yard» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

在自己的后院
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

en el propio patio de una vuelta
570 millions of speakers

English

in one´s own back yard
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

एक की अपनी पीठ यार्ड में
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

في الفناء الخلفي الخاص المرء
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

в собственном заднем дворе
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

em seu próprio quintal
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

এক মনের চোখ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

dans sa propre arrière-cour de l´un
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Dalam minda seseorang
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

im eigenen Hinterhof
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

自分の裏庭にある
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

자신의 뒤뜰 에서
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Ing ati pikiran
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

trong sân sau của chính mình
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

ஒரு மனதில் கண்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

मनाच्या डोळ्यात
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Zihin gözünde
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

nel proprio cortile di casa
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

na własnym podwórku
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

у власному задньому дворі
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

în propria curte
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

στην πίσω αυλή κάποιου
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

in ´n mens se eie agterplaas
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

i ens egen bakgård
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

i egen bakgård
5 millions of speakers

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «IN ONE'S OWN BACK YARD»

The term «in one's own back yard» is regularly used and occupies the 70.598 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «IN ONE'S OWN BACK YARD»

Discover the use of in one's own back yard in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to in one's own back yard and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Psychic Wisdom Seeker Handbook
And at night one can do this in one's own back yard, or find a safer area to walk through at night where no one is around to do the practice. Here in the city, I find in banned fields near the rain road a more ideal place to 114 Na-Wa Divine ...
Wise Wolf
2
Museums, the Media and Refugees: Stories of Crisis, Control ...
... and also to the context - the conditions at particular times. Relevant, and worth considering on any compassion-arousing occasion are these circumstances: Where people are: These events were on one's own soil, in one's "own back yard  ...
Katherine J. Goodnow, Jack Lohman, Philip Marfleet, 2008
3
Reading Gandhi
out of hand what lies in one's own back yard. A modest effort to exhibit some of the things that one can discover by digging in one's own garden. Usually, while the topics may be more local and contextual but they do raise, I believe, questions ...
Surjit Kaur Jolly, 2006
4
Tourism in the Age of Globalisation
Tour operators mainly service their own nationals in their own countries. This is why the overwhelming weight of tourism promotional activity takes place not in a global arena but in one's own back yard, even ifhi-tech developments such as the  ...
Chris Cooper, Salah Wahab, 2005
5
The Maple Sugar Book: Together with Remarks on Pioneering as ...
It was pointed out as one of the attractions of the New World that, whether settling in South or in North, one could grow one's own sugar in one's own back yard. "A branch of rural economy and comfort, peculiar to North America, is necessary to ...
Helen Nearing, Scott Nearing, 2000
6
Everyday and Prophetic: The Poetry of Lowell, Ammons, ...
impulses, is interesting to her only insofar as it shifts one's sense of what it is like to stand in one's own back yard. She writes, "between the lines, / / the spiders imitate the paths the geese won't stray from, / imitate them endlessly to no avail.
Nick Halpern, 2003
7
The Practices of Global Citizenship
Po, tentially intimidating aspects of global citizenship, in many cases, are every, day challenges close to home, such as confronting bigotry in one's own back; yard. As noted by a London journalist with a local view of global citizenship as ...
Hans Schattle, 2007
8
Colloque Mondial de L'OMPI Sur la Radiodiffusion, Les ...
... misappropriation, and, if l remember correctly, for trespass, which somehow brings us full circle, since that concept, at least under Anglo-Saxon law, was designed to keep one's neighbor's sheep from grazing in one's own back yard, and it is ...
‎1998
9
Heads: Essays in Leadership for Changing Times
... strikes home as an uneasy reminder that all pastoral roads lead towards and commence with the tensions in one's own back yard. How will it all end? Consider retirement, Headmaster (though alas this book contains no chapter on it ).
Brenda Despontin, Nigel Richardson, 2007
10
Toward a Science of Translating: With Special Reference to ...
Something which is unusual has considerable impact, but if it occurs in one's own back yard, the impact is immeasurably greater than if it happens in some distant land, or even in a nearby town. This element of impact which is dependent upon  ...
Eugene Albert Nida, 1964

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «IN ONE'S OWN BACK YARD»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term in one's own back yard is used in the context of the following news items.
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KENT: Regional was right to confront racist rant
Still, acknowledging a racist incident took place in one's own back yard and speaking out against it is a huge step forward. And while cracking ... «Rapid City Journal, May 15»
2
What happened to House Bill 2238?
Medicine is developed in laboratories and not grown by the Department of Agriculture or in one's own back yard. Think again, Missouri. «Lee's Summit Journal, Jun 14»
3
Taxing tensions in Troy
How do anti-tax attitudes play out in one's own back yard? To Brake, it means conservative spending and transparency. Local opponents to the ... «Bridge Michigan, Oct 13»
4
Depopulation by Food while making Profit
... manipulations is to boycott the products of these companies and in small ways to begin to grow one's food in one's own back yard if possible ... «Asian Tribune, Jun 12»
5
Gardeners' World is back, with Monty Don presenting from his own plot
Although I have made gardening television continuously since 1988, the combination of professional and private in one's own back yard is very ... «Daily Mail, Mar 12»
6
Six Ways Fukushima is Not Chernobyl
installed in one's own back yard, home/building, or on community/neighborhood plots or other point-to-point, locally owned facilities. The end of ... «ProPublica, Mar 11»
7
Local athletes shine on college basketball floor
BEREA It can be stated that some of the best-kept secrets, regarding college basketball talent, can be found right in one's own back yard. «Plain Dealer, Dec 10»
8
Best Of Shopping
The best things in life are often found in one's own back yard – case in point: Café Altura Coffee, a certified organic fair trade brew from the ... «Ventura County Reporter, Sep 10»
9
Colleges come up short on what students need to know
... tends to focus on status -- students and parents can find solace in the possibility that a better education can be found in one's own back yard. «Washington Post, Aug 10»
10
If Signal Mountain Had a Hall of Fame
... athletes at all levels and while there is a Chattanooga Sports Hall of Fame, it seems special to be recognized in one's own back yard. «The Chattanoogan, Jun 10»

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